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Thursday, 26 January 2012

There was no doubt that Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan was assasinated last week
in Iran as he made his way to work at an uranium enrichment facility —
the only question that remained was who did it.

The Sunday Times
reports they have a Mossad source who says it was his group that pulled
off the bombing, and it was a "precursor to a military strike" (via Ha'aretz).
The idea being that should Iran's nuclear facilities be bombed, it
will be all the more difficult for them to rebuild without scientists to
staff them.
The source says the hit was coordinated months in advance, requiring
teams on the ground to monitor Roshan, learn his schedule, and decide
where best to eliminate him.
From Ha'aretz:

According to the Sunday Times,
Roshan, 32, was monitored from a makeshift control room in a safe house
nearby as he was preparing to leave for work. Israeli agents were also
watching the entrance to Iranian intelligence headquarters in the city
center, when they noticed a number of cars and people running, followed
by police rushing into the nearby streets. Another agent monitoring
radio traffic between the Tehran police and security forces confirmed
unusual activity, said the paper.

The report states that as Roshan’s
bodyguard was driving him to Natanz uranium enrichment site, where he
served as director, a masked person on a motorbike weaved through
traffic, planting a bomb on the car shaped to deliver its full force at
the passenger.

Both British and U.S. officials have said that neither country took part in the assasination.